Python
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Python skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Python over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 16 11 10
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 +2
Permanent jobs citing Python 9,141 15,843 25,820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.32% 15.14% 16.75%
As % of the Programming Languages category 27.61% 34.81% 31.24%
Number of salaries quoted 6,021 7,895 11,422
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,500
25th Percentile £49,500 £55,000 £51,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £118,750 £118,750 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.57% +6.96% +4.55%

All Programming Languages
UK

Python is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 33,106 45,516 82,656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.77% 43.49% 53.63%
Number of salaries quoted 24,929 28,962 44,133
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,635 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year -2.48% +2.80% +7.00%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the UK

Python
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Python.

Salary trend for Python in the UK

Python
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Python in the UK

Python
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -5 7,424 £70,000 -3.45% 2,491
UK excluding London -14 5,343 £55,000 -10.57% 1,275
Work from Home -4 3,811 £70,000 - 1,248
London -3 3,506 £85,000 +3.03% 1,328
Scotland -4 1,303 £50,000 -23.08% 103
South East -11 1,140 £55,000 -10.86% 315
North of England -23 943 £55,000 -15.38% 236
South West -5 882 £56,250 -6.25% 209
North West -17 599 £56,500 -9.60% 150
Midlands -31 516 £54,698 -4.87% 157
East of England -10 387 £60,000 -4.00% 206
West Midlands -35 305 £55,000 -8.33% 100
Yorkshire -28 274 £55,000 -15.38% 64
East Midlands -24 210 £49,990 -9.11% 57
Wales -18 99 £51,528 -6.39% 39
Northern Ireland +6 83 £75,000 +25.00% 35
North East -21 70 £60,141 -7.48% 22

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 590 (6.45%) Apache Spark
2 585 (6.40%) Apache
3 559 (6.12%) Apache Airflow
4 362 (3.96%) ArcGIS
5 334 (3.65%) GeoServer
6 139 (1.52%) SAS
7 74 (0.81%) Confluence
8 63 (0.69%) nginx
9 47 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
10 41 (0.45%) Jupyter
10 41 (0.45%) OpenStack
11 40 (0.44%) SharePoint
12 20 (0.22%) Camunda
13 17 (0.19%) Tomcat
14 16 (0.18%) CMS
14 16 (0.18%) Drupal
15 14 (0.15%) WordPress
16 8 (0.088%) Ethereum
16 8 (0.088%) IIS
17 6 (0.066%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 245 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 92 (1.01%) Simulink
3 72 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
4 36 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 25 (0.27%) Stateflow
6 20 (0.22%) SPSS
7 19 (0.21%) MS Visio
8 13 (0.14%) CANalyzer
9 11 (0.12%) GNU Octave
10 8 (0.088%) EViews
11 7 (0.077%) Spreadsheet
12 6 (0.066%) Chatbot
12 6 (0.066%) Trello
13 5 (0.055%) Doxygen
13 5 (0.055%) Stata
14 2 (0.022%) Abaqus
14 2 (0.022%) InDesign
14 2 (0.022%) LaTeX
14 2 (0.022%) Microsoft Project
14 2 (0.022%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 24 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.18%) Fidessa
3 13 (0.14%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.098%) Elite 3E
4 9 (0.098%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.077%) NetSuite
6 6 (0.066%) NEC Housing
6 6 (0.066%) Odoo
7 5 (0.055%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.044%) Dynamics NAV
8 4 (0.044%) SAP IBP
8 4 (0.044%) Shopify
9 3 (0.033%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.033%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.033%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.033%) R3 Corda
9 3 (0.033%) SAP S/4HANA
9 3 (0.033%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 2 (0.022%) Primavera
10 2 (0.022%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 3,691 (40.38%) AWS
2 2,575 (28.17%) Azure
3 1,138 (12.45%) GCP
4 653 (7.14%) Serverless
5 649 (7.10%) Power Platform
6 444 (4.86%) Azure DevOps
7 397 (4.34%) Amazon S3
8 377 (4.12%) Snowflake
9 356 (3.89%) GitHub
10 342 (3.74%) dbt
11 337 (3.69%) AWS Lambda
12 334 (3.65%) SaaS
13 194 (2.12%) AWS CloudFormation
14 188 (2.06%) Amazon EC2
15 185 (2.02%) Cloud Computing
16 182 (1.99%) OpenShift
17 174 (1.90%) Azure Data Factory
18 164 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
19 158 (1.73%) Amazon ECS
20 137 (1.50%) Azure API Management
Communications & Networking
1 324 (3.54%) Firewall
2 230 (2.52%) TCP/IP
3 209 (2.29%) DNS
4 145 (1.59%) VPN
5 138 (1.51%) WAN
6 121 (1.32%) Internet
7 119 (1.30%) HTTP
8 114 (1.25%) Network Security
9 112 (1.23%) LAN
10 106 (1.16%) Wireless
11 103 (1.13%) DHCP
12 98 (1.07%) SNMP
13 67 (0.73%) IPsec
14 53 (0.58%) Bluetooth
15 50 (0.55%) 5G
16 48 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
17 39 (0.43%) MQTT
18 38 (0.42%) BGP
19 34 (0.37%) Wireshark
20 32 (0.35%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 985 (10.78%) PostgreSQL
2 634 (6.94%) NoSQL
3 597 (6.53%) Power BI
4 551 (6.03%) Big Data
5 538 (5.89%) Tableau
6 489 (5.35%) SQL Server
7 483 (5.28%) Data Lake
8 459 (5.02%) Data Warehouse
9 440 (4.81%) MongoDB
10 438 (4.79%) Relational Database
11 401 (4.39%) GIS
12 335 (3.66%) QGIS
13 289 (3.16%) Hadoop
14 286 (3.13%) MySQL
15 252 (2.76%) Amazon Athena
16 249 (2.72%) Apache Ignite
17 220 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
18 218 (2.38%) Dremio
19 216 (2.36%) Apache Arrow
20 182 (1.99%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1,034 (11.31%) Git
2 651 (7.12%) Jenkins
3 303 (3.31%) JIRA
4 285 (3.12%) GitLab
5 89 (0.97%) Bitbucket Server
6 77 (0.84%) Cypress.io
7 72 (0.79%) LabVIEW
8 68 (0.74%) Bitbucket
9 67 (0.73%) Visual Studio
10 62 (0.68%) Selenium
11 61 (0.67%) Subversion
12 58 (0.63%) Maven
13 56 (0.61%) CircleCI
14 48 (0.53%) Artifactory
15 45 (0.49%) Cucumber
15 45 (0.49%) TeamCity
16 40 (0.44%) JUnit
17 38 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
18 36 (0.39%) JDeveloper
19 31 (0.34%) Gradle
General
1 2,859 (31.28%) Finance
2 1,848 (20.22%) Social Skills
3 1,264 (13.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1,118 (12.23%) Law
5 1,045 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
6 837 (9.16%) Marketing
7 729 (7.98%) Banking
8 665 (7.27%) Front Office
9 504 (5.51%) Legal
10 395 (4.32%) Public Sector
11 355 (3.88%) Retail
12 324 (3.54%) Investment Banking
13 272 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
14 243 (2.66%) Electronics
15 207 (2.26%) Manufacturing
16 183 (2.00%) Telecoms
17 181 (1.98%) Games
18 171 (1.87%) Aerospace
19 151 (1.65%) Financial Institution
20 118 (1.29%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 2,441 (26.70%) Software Engineer
2 2,062 (22.56%) Senior
3 1,715 (18.76%) Developer
4 1,000 (10.94%) Data Engineer
5 879 (9.62%) Python Engineer
6 851 (9.31%) Lead
7 715 (7.82%) Analyst
8 636 (6.96%) Senior Software Engineer
9 602 (6.59%) Python Software Engineer
10 530 (5.80%) AWS Engineer
10 530 (5.80%) Python Developer
11 445 (4.87%) DevOps Engineer
12 351 (3.84%) Full Stack Developer
13 336 (3.68%) Data Scientist
14 323 (3.53%) Senior Developer
15 320 (3.50%) Architect
16 318 (3.48%) Data Analyst
17 303 (3.31%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 297 (3.25%) Lead Software Engineer
19 285 (3.12%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,400 (15.32%) React
2 838 (9.17%) .NET
3 725 (7.93%) CSS
4 592 (6.48%) Node.js
5 564 (6.17%) AngularJS
6 533 (5.83%) HTML
7 450 (4.92%) Pandas
8 427 (4.67%) REST
9 377 (4.12%) PySpark
10 376 (4.11%) .NET Core
11 358 (3.92%) Kafka
12 356 (3.89%) NumPy
13 351 (3.84%) PostGIS
14 341 (3.73%) OpenLayers
15 337 (3.69%) Leaflet
16 336 (3.68%) gRPC
17 331 (3.62%) Django
18 304 (3.33%) Protocol Buffers
19 285 (3.12%) Spring
20 278 (3.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1,051 (11.50%) Algorithms
2 531 (5.81%) Hedge funds
3 524 (5.73%) Cloud Native
4 484 (5.29%) Fixed Income
5 421 (4.61%) Data Structures
6 381 (4.17%) Equities
7 375 (4.10%) Derivative
8 323 (3.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 255 (2.79%) Onboarding
10 245 (2.68%) Product Ownership
11 231 (2.53%) Public Cloud
12 229 (2.51%) IoT
13 200 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
14 198 (2.17%) Management Information System
15 186 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
16 170 (1.86%) Data Centre
17 161 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
18 154 (1.68%) Blockchain
19 123 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
20 103 (1.13%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1,816 (19.87%) Linux
2 795 (8.70%) Windows
3 371 (4.06%) Unix
4 212 (2.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 196 (2.14%) Android
6 166 (1.82%) Apple iOS
7 150 (1.64%) Windows Server
8 141 (1.54%) CentOS
9 136 (1.49%) Ubuntu
10 103 (1.13%) Embedded Linux
11 75 (0.82%) Debian
12 54 (0.59%) Data ONTAP
13 21 (0.23%) Windows 10
14 20 (0.22%) CoreOS
14 20 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
14 20 (0.22%) Solaris
15 19 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
16 16 (0.18%) Mac OS
16 16 (0.18%) SUSE
17 14 (0.15%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,489 (38.17%) Software Engineering
2 3,312 (36.23%) Agile
3 2,082 (22.78%) DevOps
4 1,903 (20.82%) CI/CD
5 1,839 (20.12%) Problem-Solving
6 1,737 (19.00%) Machine Learning
7 1,632 (17.85%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1,361 (14.89%) Analytics
9 1,162 (12.71%) Computer Science
10 1,113 (12.18%) SDLC
11 1,038 (11.36%) Data Science
12 1,014 (11.09%) Visualisation
13 855 (9.35%) Actionable Insight
14 845 (9.24%) Full Stack Development
15 844 (9.23%) Business Intelligence
16 773 (8.46%) ETL
17 766 (8.38%) Mentoring
18 763 (8.35%) Operational Stability
19 758 (8.29%) Mathematics
20 704 (7.70%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 3,168 (34.66%) SQL
2 2,372 (25.95%) Java
3 2,008 (21.97%) JavaScript
4 1,310 (14.33%) C#
5 937 (10.25%) Bash
6 730 (7.99%) TypeScript
7 710 (7.77%) C
8 700 (7.66%) C++
9 689 (7.54%) PowerShell
10 513 (5.61%) R
11 450 (4.92%) Go
12 296 (3.24%) Perl
13 286 (3.13%) Ruby
14 233 (2.55%) Scala
15 213 (2.33%) MATLAB
16 180 (1.97%) PL/SQL
17 156 (1.71%) PHP
18 151 (1.65%) Rust
19 147 (1.61%) Embedded C
20 139 (1.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,921 (21.02%) Degree
2 1,247 (13.64%) Security Cleared
3 760 (8.31%) SC Cleared
4 526 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 464 (5.08%) Master's Degree
6 293 (3.21%) DV Cleared
7 286 (3.13%) PhD
8 161 (1.76%) DBS Check
9 134 (1.47%) AWS Certification
10 94 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
11 70 (0.77%) CISSP
12 65 (0.71%) Azure Certification
13 62 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
14 58 (0.63%) CCNA
15 52 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
16 44 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
17 40 (0.44%) CCNP
18 36 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 36 (0.39%) HND
19 30 (0.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 395 (4.32%) Data Quality
2 328 (3.59%) QA
3 100 (1.09%) Accessibility
4 72 (0.79%) SLA
5 69 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 52 (0.57%) GDPR
7 42 (0.46%) NIST
8 38 (0.42%) PCI DSS
9 33 (0.36%) PMO
10 21 (0.23%) ISO 26262
11 20 (0.22%) MISRA
12 18 (0.20%) CRD IV
13 17 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
13 17 (0.19%) IFRS
13 17 (0.19%) ISO 13485
14 16 (0.18%) IFRS 9
15 14 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
15 14 (0.15%) Automotive SPICE
15 14 (0.15%) AUTOSAR
15 14 (0.15%) JTAG
System Software
1 1,115 (12.20%) Docker
2 221 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 179 (1.96%) Active Directory
4 116 (1.27%) HDFS
5 113 (1.24%) Firmware
6 106 (1.16%) Hyper-V
7 68 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
8 55 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
9 28 (0.31%) vSphere
10 22 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
11 21 (0.23%) NFS
12 20 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
13 10 (0.11%) pfSense
14 6 (0.066%) KVM
14 6 (0.066%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 5 (0.055%) Ceph
15 5 (0.055%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 3 (0.033%) Gluster
16 3 (0.033%) oVirt
16 3 (0.033%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 1,285 (14.06%) Kubernetes
2 1,011 (11.06%) Terraform
3 680 (7.44%) Ansible
4 280 (3.06%) Puppet
5 193 (2.11%) Prometheus
6 171 (1.87%) Grafana
7 111 (1.21%) Progress Chef
8 87 (0.95%) vCenter Server
9 30 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
10 29 (0.32%) HAProxy
11 28 (0.31%) Salt
12 25 (0.27%) ZABBIX
13 24 (0.26%) Packer
14 23 (0.25%) Kibana
14 23 (0.25%) Nmap
15 22 (0.24%) Nagios
16 20 (0.22%) logstash
17 19 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
18 18 (0.20%) Red Hat Satellite
19 17 (0.19%) WMI
Vendors
1 722 (7.90%) Databricks
2 703 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 513 (5.61%) Oracle
4 507 (5.55%) Google
5 386 (4.22%) Red Hat
6 356 (3.89%) ESRI
7 291 (3.18%) VMware
8 164 (1.79%) IBM
9 146 (1.60%) Informatica
10 141 (1.54%) Cisco
11 138 (1.51%) Alteryx
12 135 (1.48%) Splunk
13 96 (1.05%) SAP
14 92 (1.01%) Cloudera
15 74 (0.81%) Bloomberg
16 71 (0.78%) Palo Alto
17 62 (0.68%) Atlassian
18 57 (0.62%) NetApp
19 54 (0.59%) SolidFire
20 51 (0.56%) Salesforce